People Are Really Mad About This *Maybe* Pornographic YouTube Video [NSFW]

We've seen what sex looks like from the perspective of an MRI machine, and now, thanks to a YouTube video that's raising some controversy, we can see what it looks like from inside a vagina. An "educational" video that's been up on YouTube since March 2015 is drawing some fresh attention after Express UK raised concerns that the clip is basically just pornography, branded as educational material. 

The video, simply titled, "camera inside of the vagina during sex in Missionary Position," shows a man and a woman having sex in missionary position, from the perspective of some ​very​ strategically placed cameras. One camera is placed inside of the woman's vagina (as the title advertises), and another is mounted near the base of the man's penis. The video shows the whole process from beginning (there's another camera mounted on the woman's nipple) to end (~*~oRgAsM~*~). 

It's actually pretty fascinating. Here's one of the more scientifically interesting shots (NSFW obviously) showing a vagina-cam view of the penis:

YouTube commenters, who are confused about how they ended up on a video shot from the perspective of a thrusting dick, do ​not ​find the video to be very scientifically interesting. Express UK is concerned that this is pornographic material, on a site that kids use. But in the video's defense, there is an age restriction of 18+ set by the person who uploaded the clip.

A lot of commenters feel very lost:

Others wonder how YouTube allows this sort of material to remain on the site:

And others, still, have some questions:

The short clip has been viewed more than 15 million times, and appears to be from a 2006 British documentary series called A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex, which, over the course a few episodes, explored some popular sex positions from the same deeply intimate angles as the clip in question. (Full-length episodes of the documentary series are also up on YouTube, and they're just​ as graphic.) 

YouTube has an anti-porn policy in its user guidelines, but there's a loophole: "A video that contains nudity or other sexual content may be allowed if the primary purpose is educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic, and it isn't gratuitously graphic.​" Hmm... well, this clip ​technically​ comes from an educational documentary about sex, but YouTube also has some specific rules about stripping otherwise educational films of their context. "A documentary on breast cancer would be appropriate, but posting clips out of context from the same documentary might not be​," the guidelines warn. 

I'm not here to judge, but being able to see how an orgasm happens from inside a vagina definitely seems educational, in a dirty Magic School Bus kind of way. I learned some things — even if watching a penis come at you in full screen is terrifying.

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